having a shot at the senate and ending up with candidates that lost them races they should have one. christine o donnell in delaware is a really famous one. how do you think of this now with youngkin have secured this victory, having never had to run in a primary and compare that to what these primary fields look like in a lot of senate races. man, chris, you just put your finger on a very important difference between the race that we just saw unfold and the races about to come up. what virginia republicans did and the country should know, in virginia you can choose whether to go into an actual primary, where on election day you have a primary day and voters go vote or you can have a party convention. party officials will meet and decide who with the activists and central committee chairman and so forth, who the nominee of the party will be. instead of the primary, they chose the convention because
at xfinity.com/moving. in the lead-up to last night s election in virginia, it was difficult to painting glenn youngkin as trump in a fleece vest. he was spared the kind of primary where he could be outflanked by some hard core maga candidate.
even he suffered the same kind of backlash to his presidency that we re seeing last night. anyway, it s just an unavoidable part of our political reality in a divided country. there s another interesting angle in virginia, which is that in many ways republicans kinda turned back the clock a little bit. they nominated a very bush-era style candidate, circa 2003. glenn youngkin is a private equity baron in a vest. he talks about economic issues. when he pushes talking points that are meant to flirt with and stoke white backlash, he does so in a coded way with dog whistles about education. while i think that coded talk and who it is intended to appeal to is bad, obviously, there s no denying it has been successful for republican candidates for decades, dating back to richard nixon s talk about law and order or ronald reagan s speech on welfare and states rights in
closing again. there s supply chain stuff and it s bad vibes. gas prices are high. people feel like ugh s, this is not normal. i want to agree with that and go back to an important point alex made. first of all, voters are angry and they keep voting for change. and i think some people misread biden s nomination as being this desire to return to the old. but in fact he was change relative to what trump represented. now biden is the president, so when voters are angry, they want something that s different than that. youngkin did a very good job of presenting himself as an outsider with equal credibility to trump doing so in d.c. but he was able to paint terry mcauliffe as the insider. the ads that i was getting were about all of the corporate pac donations that terry mcauliffe
youngkin s campaign. i think he should win. to be honest, my base has to turn out. i hope they turn out. i really want them to turn out. it s a sentiment trump echoed in one of his multiple statements today taking credit for youngkin s win. i would like to thank my base for coming out in force and voting for glenn youngkin. the maga movement is bigger and stronger than ever before. you can smell the desperation coming off that statement. the multiple statements he put out saying the same thing. nearly a year out from office, trump says his movement is stronger than ever, but i m not so sure. we re in an interesting moment right now. the reality of what happened last night, the image of glenn youngkin, private equity baron up there talking about education and normal republican issues is kind of a version of normal politics, for lack of a better word. at the same time, we are watching this metastasizing